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Podcast: Sparking Wholeness
Episode: Episode 325: The Real Causes of Depression: Amino Acids, Nutrient Deficiencies, and the Brain-Body Connection with Dr. James Greenblatt
Description: What if depression isn’t “all in your head," but in your body?
In this powerful conversation, host Erin Kerry is joined by Dr. James Greenblatt, MD—one of the world’s leading voices in functional and integrative psychiatry and the pioneer of low-dose nutritional lithium for mental health.
For more than 30 years, Dr. Greenblatt has been sounding the alarm that psychiatry can do better. Much better. And the research finally agrees: depression is influenced by nutrient deficiencies, immune activation, gut dysfunction, endocrine imbalance, and the brain’s biochemical wiring.
This episode unpacks the root causes of depression, why nutritional psychiatry i...